Keen followers of the MOBO awards will know all about YOLANDA BROWN. In 2008, you see, she picked up the ‘Best Jazz’ MOBO accolade. The award was based around her live work and the acclaimed EP ‘Finding My Voice’ which she now follows with another mini-album, ‘A Step Closer’. This new 7 tracker features more of her innovative sax playing that has already won her gigs playing with artists as diverse as the Temptations and Soweto Kinch. YOLANDA’S jazz is hard to pin down but in it there are flavours of soul, R&B, gospel and reggae and even on the tight grooves of ‘Just Say’ there’s an other-worldliness that may call to mind JOHN KLEMMER. The lady’s working on a full album and has a full touring schedule in her diary…. Find out more at – www.yolandabrown.co.uk
